- User Accounts and Directories:
- Many Unix installations are done on shared systems where users
share NeXtMidas installations and data directories (often on a
RAID array).
- While this is optional for single-user installations, most users
prefer to do it this way.
- Where applicable, NeXtMidas and X-Midas can be setup to share
data directories and user accounts.
- Setup User Accounts:
- Most users prefer to install NeXtMidas using the X-Midas Manager
user account (
xmmgr
) and group (midas
).
- Users who do not have an existing X-Midas Manager account setup
typically ignore this and just create the install directories using
the
root
account and give all NeXtMidas users access
to the directories.
- Create NeXtMidas Data Directories:
- Basic
- User data directories are located under
/midas/data1/
.
- Individual user directories are named
/midas/data1/<user>/
where <user>
is the user's login.
- Remember to change the permissions and user/group settings so that
users will be able to read and write in their own data directory.
- Advanced
- All NeXtMidas data directories are usually mounted under
/midas/
.
- Tip: Many users make
/midas
an independent partition on the local disk and give it a size
of approximately 16MB. This prevents the root partition from
being filled up in the event of a RAID failure.
- Local user accounts are placed under
/midas/data1
.
- Many systems have
/midas/data1
as a separate
disk partition.
- Individual user directories are named
/midas/data1/<user>/
where <user>
is the user's login.
- Other data disks would also be mounted under
/midas/
,
a common one is /midas/data11
used for RAID arrays.
(This is totally optional and is only used where
applicable.)